Lose It! 3.01

We’re pleased to announce the availability of Lose It! 3.01. Lose It! 3.01 has only a few small changes from Lose It! 3.0, but we think you’ll like them. Here’s what is new:

+ The ‘My Foods’ List is now back to the way it alway has been (it shows the 500 most recently used foods). We took things a step further and added a preference in the More screen that allows you to choose from a few different sizes for your ‘My Foods’ list, including unlimited.

+ The ‘Previous Meals’ is now also back to the way it always has been (showing all meals by default). We also added a preference that allows you to filter this to a smaller set of meals, if you’d like.

+ In order to fit these new options into the More section, we did a bit of reorganization.

+ We’ve been working on a book with Anahad O’Connor (a NY Times columnist). It’ll be available at the end of the year, but you can pre-order it now! We’ve added an item to the More section to let people know about the book. If you want to learn more, you can do so here at Sugar Land TX.

+ We improved the toast icon.

+ We also fixed a few bugs and made a few changes to improve stability.

54 Replies to “Lose It! 3.01”

Thanks so much for the continued improvements. I love Lose It. It is my lifeline to weight loss and better health. I would love it if I could track my blood sugar levels in the App as well as schedule a reminder to check my next blood sugar 2 hours after I finish my meal. I am sure others on insulin might like to track their insulin shot levels too. The most immediate thing for me though is a carb calculator by meal instead of just by day. If I have a meal with lots of small ingredients, it can get very tedious to add up all the carbs in order to know if I am still within my allotment or not. If I can see immediate feedback (like an alarm message) that tells me that I am over my meal allotment for carbs, I can adjust my menu immediately. Thanks so much for everything you do. I love Lose It.

Johanne – you could use the reminders for logging meals to check blood sugar instead…. of course you’d have to estimate when the meals were going to be. But I agree with your ideas – I’m not a diabetic (yet anyway, its rampant in my family) but those alarms would be great!

Great job, Charles and LoseIt – I love using this app – I do it in conjunction with my Withings scale – maybe a link to that would be possible, it wirelessly sends my weight to Withings and to the WiScale app, also use iFitness to log exercises and manually enter that. Lastly use HeartWise to enter blood pressure/pulse – would be an idea to also graph that as I have seen a direct correlation to that and my successfully eating less, exercising and losing weight thanks to LoseIt!

Yes exactly! Build in alarms would be perfect to remind myself to take my 2 hour post meal blood sugar result. Right now i am using the calendar alarm feature that’s built into the ipod, but it would be great if LoseIt could do it so it would all be in one place.

I like using your program, but use it on an iPad rather than a iPhone. The screen formatting on the iPad is not very good, and forces me to use the iPad in portrait mode. Would you consider incorporating full iPad screen support into a future release?

Just a heads up, my son writes apps for the ipad and we both use Lose It. I’m pretty sure I could talk him into porting your app over from the iphone to the ipad, and upgrading the graphics to match for ya if you like.

Thanks for reaching out regarding the iPad application! We’ll be in touch if we need any assistance when we determine whether or not we’re doing an app native to the iPad. Best of luck in reaching your weight loss goals!

Those all sound like great changes! I don’t differentiate between breakfast vs. other meals (it’s always a free for all for me), so having all previous meals available again for every meal is the best change-back for me. I will like having the full list in my foods again, even though I would have gotten used to the difference eventually.

Hi, I downloaded the new lose it app, but it’s not working for me. All I see when I open it is a blank screen. Any ideas on how to fix it? I tried deleting it and reinstalling the app, but no luck… Thanks!

Sorry that you ran into this! Can you try rebooting your phone by holding down the top button and the round ‘home’ button until the Apple logo appears on the screen. This typically resolves this issue.

I tried to download the update, but it froze on the waiting stage. I did a soft restart but then lost the program and, I guess, my data. Now I cannot download loseit from the app store. I’ve been a faithful user since February and have lost 28 lbs. Please help.

Hi-
Can you try rebooting your phone by holding down the top button and the round ‘home’ button until the Apple logo appears on the screen We think that this may be a quick fix for this issue. If you continue to have trouble please drop us a line (support@loseit.com).

Thanks for the update, and for continuing to improve a great app. I have a suggestion:

Can we choose how long of a food diary/weight history stays on our ipod/iphone? Right now it appears the only way to take old entries off the unit is to uninstall and reinstall, which would lose all the custom foods built up over time–but I can see that if I use this for years and years, it will take up LOTS of space. I’d rather keep the older history in an archive on my computer.

And if it’s not easy to do a selectable duration, maybe making it six months automatically?

Good update! I have one thing that bothers me though and it’s not particular to this update but the Food Icons, there named poorly sometimes(looking for soda icon it’s actually called “cola”) and it’s hard to scroll through them all; maybe adding some groupings/categories would help?

Any update on Multi-add? I connected my wife’s iPhone to Loseit.com under 3.0 and upgraded it to 3.01. Multi-add does not work with her iPhone either on 3.0 or 3.01, and yes, I rebooted it several times.

So sorry about this- we still haven’t been able to reproduce your specific issue- ‘multi-add’ has functioned correctly in all of our testing across various devices. Would you mind emailing me with the specific steps that you are following so I can double check that we’re reproducing the issue correctly? I’ll email you separately so you have my contact info…

Sorry for the confusion, it does work. After re-reading…tap and hold is really just one long tap. I read it is a short tap, followed by a long (hold) tap. Duh! It works fine as long as I hold on each subsequent item I am adding. Thanks for your paitence…

I have lost 20 pounds in 2.5 months. Loseit has been a huge aid. In the past, i’d lose a few pounds, and then due to water retention or whatever, I wouldn’t see additional losses for a week, so I’d get discouraged and revert to old habits. This time, I just kept tracking (and tracking honestly). Even when my weight jumped up 4 pounds without explanation around week 8, I kept to my regimen. Sure enough, a week later, the 4 pounds was gone an another 2 as well!
The only problem I noticed was that the calories attributes to exercise seem high, especially for rollerblading. Half way trough my weightless, I started only counting 1/2 my rollerblade time and this seemed to balance better. Otherwise, I ended up eating too much.

I’m new here and I’m trying it out this morning. I was on a good roll for a while eating right and exercising but the last month I’ve found myself giving up and stress eating. Work is crazy. Homelife is stressed . So today I’m using loseit.com on my iPhone to start again.

I am in love with this app! It really helps me stay on track! I do have a request for the next upgrade. Many of us track food by weight, not just volume. Could you expand the measurements to include fl oz and oz, as well as expand volume options? For example, you might provide cups as the default measurement, but I may only need to log 1 tablespoon. 1/8 of a cup is the smallest your cup measurements will go. Other than that, this is a fantastic app! 5 pounds lost so far!

I’ve read that Android is being considered. Is there any way to get on a beta program for Android? I’m thrilled that I’ll be able to keep using Lose It! via the web, but will miss the convenience of a handy app on my phone when I move off of my iPhone in a few days.

I can’t express how Lose It! has helped me lose weight that previously seemed impossible to shed. I’ve also been explaining to my children about food (energy) consumption and calorie burn while logging my food and exercise information on Lose It!

I’m down 18 pounds and planning on dropping another 16 to get me to a BMI of 22.

I would be 100% happy to be added to the list of beta testers for the Android. I love logging in with the web based version of the program but am very eager to be able to log food when I’m not tethered to a computer!

I had hang and freeze problems after the september update that were eventually solved, but they have now returned. I can’t use the program on my iPhone GS3. Any data I try to enter just freezes the program and now that I have changed my password to log in to the website, I can’t change that either. Please help.

Sorry you have run into this. Have you tried rebooting your device to see if that corrects the problem? While this is a temporary solution, we’ve had other reports that this does work. We are investigating what the cause of this may be. Do you recall what you were doing in the app when this problem re-surfaced? Email support@loseit.com if this does not work for you.

Hi, I love lose-it – I’ve been using it on and off for years to keep my weight under control. I have a little wish-list. On the foods list, I’d really like to see more portions measured in grams… for example : instead of ‘slice’ for bread, and even by the cup for veggies etc – even more useful would be if you added the weight in addition whatever other measure you are using – 1 slice of bread or 30 gms… or whatever. It’s so much quicker and more accurate to measure by weight. Even liquids are more easily measured by weight.
– I’d like to see ‘bread’ icon. And to measure body weight, how about kg’s as well as pounds – useful for those of us living outside the US. Also, an option to add the time of meal would be nice.

Please, please, please add a simple option to your next version: I’d like to enter my weight in kilograms, not lbs. I don’t mind if the food is not in metric, but it would really help if I could enter my weight in Kilograms.

I have the iPhone 4 and downloaded the App and it works but when I tried to make an account it kept giving me errors to check my connection. I then went on-line to create an account then tried to log on to it with my phone and same errors. It keeps saying to verify my connection. I have done all the tupical trbl shooting, even deleting the app (After using it for almost two weeks loosing all my information) then reloading it and everything I did it gave me the same error. It loaded fine on my iPad, but I have my phone with me everywhere and its a pain having to track everything on my phone then re-enter everything either on the computer or iPad.

I like the App so far — better than WW. Bar-code reader works really well and finds most any food.

It would really be great if you could pre-load food for the next day or even next several days. This would allow you to plan meals more effectively by knowing what you are going to eat rather than recording what you eat. Kind of like planning WW points.

Been using this App for the past two days. I was very disappointed when I discovered that you are not able to preplan meal in advance. This is a very important feature that I feel is missing. I will need to reconsider using this app, or continue to use Livestrong Daily Plate when needing to pre-plan. There are others who feel the same way, and there are numerous posts that have been placed in the message board regarding this. Hoepfully, this is a feature that can be added, and added soon.

Great app. Lost 20 lbs in 6 months. Wondering if you would consider allowing diabetics to record blood glucose levels by syncing with bg monitors like calorie trak and other weight loss programs. Thanks

Thanks for the continuing improvements to a totally awesome app and web site! I love using this program. Have been logging regularly for 2 yrs now. Down 82 lbs. So happy with the results and the encouragement of the LoseIt community!

Thank God you improved the toast icon! That has kept me up all night for weeks,”WHAT were they thinking?” Just joking! I love LoseIt and appreciate every bit of hard work you put into it. You helped me lose 30 lbs and that meant a lot to me!